"NEW DELHI - In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India’s rich and poor."
"NASHVILLE — Jonna Laidlaw was terrorized by rain. Her house, with its lovely screened-in back porch, had flooded some 20 times since 2001, from a few inches to six feet. She and her husband would do their repairs with help from their flood insurance, but before long it would flood again."
"Nobody knows exactly when the truck will arrive. Its schedule varies. But when it pulls up — sometime in the morning and then again after dusk — it's often the neighborhood children, playing cricket in the street, who are first to sound the alarm."
"In the 22 months since Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas coast, scientists have uncovered a variety of lessons about climate change. One takeaway is the phenomenon known as "compound flooding," the idea that disasters can be influenced by more than one source of water at the same time."
"Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists."
"The explosions that destroyed part of the historic oil refinery on Philadelphia's south side have thrown a wrench into the ongoing effort to clean up decades' worth of soil and water pollution at the site."
"The heatwave frying parts of Europe smashed France’s high-temperature record, with weather service Meteo-France reporting 45.9 degrees Celsius, or 114.6 Fahrenheit, in the town of Gallargues le Montueux near the Mediterranean Sea."
"Oregon will tighten safety standards for railroads transporting large amounts of crude oil."
"Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court on Thursday that seeks to decommission the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline across the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac."
"As a changing climate continues to increase average temperatures in the US, researchers estimate yield losses that could cost billions".
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